Improvement in lamp-burners



S. R. WILMOT.

Lamp-Burner.

Patented Aug10,I875.

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UNITED STATES PATENT DFFICE.

SAMUEL R. WILMOT, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO BRIDGEPORT BRASS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAM P-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 166,670, dated August 10, 1875 application filed July 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL R.WILMO1, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fail-field and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Lamp-Burners; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification.

This invention relates to burners of lamps using kerosene or other explosive fluids, and in which it is usual to provide a gas or vent tube from the body of the lamp, to carry 011. the gas forming therein.

The invention consists in a novel construction and attachment or arrangement of the gas or vent tube, whereby simplicity and economy are combined with efficiency in the use of the same.

Figure 1 represents a plan of alamp-burner having my improvement applied; Fig. 2, a tranverse vertical section of the same on the line .10 x,- and Fig. 3, a further transverse Verticalsection on the line y y.

A is the burner top or cap, which may be of the usual or any suitable construction 5 B,

' the wick-tube, and C the wick-adjuster. D is the gas or vent tube, made to extend from or near the bottom of the burner to or near the top of the wick-tube, and provided with openings or vents-as, for instance, at a a, intermediately between the top and bottom of said tubefor the purpose of allowing atmospheric air to mingle with the gas escaping from the body of the lamp while said gas is passing up and having one or more air openings or vents intermediately between its top and botlom, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

S. R. WILMOT.

Witnesses:

D. W. KISSAM, N. M. BEACH, Jr. 

